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Freedom Riders John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement

How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that...

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Main Author: Bausum, Ann.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2006.
Subjects:
Lewis, John, > 1940-2020 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Zwerg, Jim, > 1939- > Juvenile nonfiction.
African American civil rights workers > Biography > Juvenile.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography. > Juvenile.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
Southern States > Race relations > Juvenile nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Black America
  • White America
  • Common ground
  • Early rides
  • Blood brothers
  • Rolling on
  • Separate paths
  • Afterword : toward one America
  • Partial roster of Riders
  • Chronology.

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